ANTH 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Structural Marxism, Group Selection, Stoicism
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Juridical: relating to the administration of justice via a judge. Anathema: something or someone that one dislikes. Polemical: explanations which are at two different extremes of possibilities. Usurpation: sudden or violent overthrow or change of a state. Use jargon that is unique to them in their writing making it hard to understand. Femininist structural marxism still commonly in use today. Communism, the teleological end of their proposed progressive evolutionary model. Modern communism that we see in use is not the communism marx and engels are proposing in their ideology. Notion of underlying forces" is a powerful one that is valuable in anthropology and many other fields. Really a historical analysis of western society, really cool when looking at our own western world, but in a lot of ways not good for looking at many other societies. Fecundity: the ability to produce an abundance of offspring. Parsimoniously: sparing, restrainedly, (occam"s razor, simplest explanation is likely true)
